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Memento Mori (stylised on cover as Memento| Mori) is the fifteenth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 24 March 2023 [2] through Columbia. [3] [4] The album was produced by James Ford, and marks their first album in six years since 2017's Spirit, the longest period of time between albums in the band's history.
On 29 January 2024, an official music video was released for the song directed by Anton Corbijn. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Focusing on themes of mortality and salvation, and filmed in black and white, the video shows a gloomy figure in an overcoat who slowly walks into a dangerous sea, and, in the end, the elements consume him.
3.16.01 Chasm (third part of the History of Memento Mori) While the enemy was losing the battle today, they cried out to us, "Memento Mori, we are human too! We are in pain and we are dying!". I answered them, hoping they would listen, "Break off your pact with the Dread Army! That is what is killing you! Walk away and take your life back!
The song marks the first single release since the death of co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher in May 2022. [2] To Dave Gahan, the song "captures this perfect balance of melancholy and joy", while Martin Gore added that the song has "such an upbeat feel to it" and how rare it is for the band to record a song that "I just don't get sick of listening to".
Includes three CDs containing the album, bonus songs and remixes, as well as 14 exclusive demos ranging from as far back as the Music for the Masses era. [38] It also contains a DVD featuring three films, a promo video for " Wrong ", four songs filmed live in the studio in December 2008, and the album and bonus tracks mastered in 5.1 surround.
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Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity , and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
Memento Mori is in one movement and last for approximately 14 minutes. [1] It is in common time and the tempo is lento. [7] The piece opens with an introduction, which them leads into two statements of the Dies irae plainchant, part of the Latin mass for the dead: Following this, the music oscillates between the pitches of G and A-flat.